Proverbs 7:17
I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
Proverbs 7:17 in other translations
| BSB | I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, with aloes, and with cinnamon. |
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| WEB | I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. |
| ASV | I have perfumed my bed With myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. |
| YLT | I sprinkled my bed--myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. |
| DARBY | I have perfumed my couch with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. |
| BBE | I have made my bed sweet with perfumes and spices. |
| Webster | I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. |
What does Proverbs 7:17 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Proverbs 7:16-17
16-17. my bed--or, "couch," adorned in the costliest manner.
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Proverbs 7:6-27
Here is an affecting example of the danger of youthful lusts. It is a history or a parable of the most instructive kind. Will any one dare to venture on temptations that lead to impurity, after Solomon has set before his eyes in so lively and plain a manner, the danger of even going near them? Then is he as the man who would dance on the edge of a lofty rock, when he has just seen another fall headlong from the same…
Proverbs 7:17 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Proverbs 7:17
- Psalms 45:8
All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.
- Isaiah 57:7-9
Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice. Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for thou hast discovered thyself to another than me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee a covenant with them; thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest it. And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off, and didst debase thyself even unto hell.
- Song of Solomon 4:13-14
Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard, Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices:
- Exodus 30:23
Take thou also unto thee principal spices, of pure myrrh five hundred shekels, and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two hundred and fifty shekels, and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty shekels,
- Song of Solomon 3:6
Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
So 3:6; Isa 57:7-9
with.
Ps 45:8; So 4:13,14
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain
Context
- Proverbs 7:16
I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.
- Proverbs 7:17
I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
- Proverbs 7:18
Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.
Proverbs 7:17 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | He sahumado mi cámara con mirra, áloes, y cinamomo. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | j’ai parfumé ma couche de myrrhe, d’aloès, et de cinnamome. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | ich habe mein Lager benetzt mit Myrrhe, Aloe und Zimmet. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | aspersi cubile meum myrrha, et aloë, et cinnamomo. |